Planning Permission: Appeals

(asked on 9th January 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning appeals have been recovered from local authorities which have no local plan or whose plan (a) dates from earlier than 2004 and (b) is not compliant with the National Planning Policy Framework; and how many such appeals resulted in a refusal decision.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 21st January 2015

I refer the hon. Member to my answer to her today to PQ UIN 220269 which lists the local authorities in which appeals were recovered in the last year.

The Planning Inspectorate maintains a national database of Local Plan progress, which is regularly updated. The data can be found at:

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/planning/planningsystem/localplans

However, I would remind the hon. Member that appeals are recovered in line with the published recovery criteria; the status of the Local Plan itself may be totally unconnected to the decision to recover. In turn, planning appeal decisions must be taken in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise.

Appeal decisions will thus depend on the local circumstances of each individual case. In that context, I have not undertaken a detailed analysis of the underlying reasons for recovered appeal decisions, and cursory comparisons are likely to be misleading.

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